Urbanovich wins EPT Malta HR

Saturday, 21 March 2015

The first major prize of the massive EPT Malta festival after Dzmitry Urbanovich took down the €25,000 Super High Roller.

The Pole pocketed a career-best score of €572,300 after outrunning an 88-runner field. Urbanovich went into Friday's finale third in the chip counts and after the challenges of Martin Finger, Dani Stern and Daniel Dvoress stalled just Connor Drinan stood in the way of High Roller glory.

Urbanovich overturned a 2.7m to 1.7m chip deficit at the start of heads up play, eventually sealing victory when his pocket tens prevailed against the American's pocket nines.

"This was my first EPT High Roller, maybe I was preparing myself for bigger tournaments, and this was the moment," Urbanovich told the PokerStars blog. "I was pretty lucky, got some good spots, made some bad beats for guys. Played good in certain spots and a solid game."

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”